Aesthetics, Industry & Science

Aesthetics, Industry & Science
Author: M. Norton Wise
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022653149X

On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group—which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brücke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz—established leading positions in what only thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science. How was this possible? How could a bunch of twenty-somethings succeed in seizing the future? In Aesthetics, Industry, and Science M. Norton Wise answers these questions not simply from a technical perspective of theories and practices but with a broader cultural view of what was happening in Berlin at the time. He emphasizes in particular how rapid industrial development, military modernization, and the neoclassical aesthetics of contemporary art informed the ways in which these young men thought. Wise argues that aesthetic sensibility and material aspiration in this period were intimately linked, and he uses these two themes for a final reappraisal of Helmholtz’s early work. Anyone interested in modern German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century German science, will be drawn to this landmark book.

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Author: Jay Pridmore
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

In his introduction, author Jay Pridmore relates how the Museum was founded by Chicago businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and how it was installed in the imposing Palace of Fine Arts, an architectural monument from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Then, he leads an entertaining and informative tour of the Museum, featuring the incredibly diverse exhibits in five "zones" - Energy, Transportation, Space and Defense, The Human Body and Communications. Discussed and illustrated are such dramatic "icons" of the Museum's early years as the Coal Mine, a complete working mine operation installed in the basement, and the U-505, a German submarine captured during World War II. Among the many other highlights are a full-size Boeing 727 airliner; the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which circled the Moon in 1968; an early display on the prenatal development of a human baby; and the nation's first permanent exhibit on AIDS.

Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry

Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry
Author: B. Joerges
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780792367369

This book explores a little-studied arena that exists between science and technology, an arena in which a singular and important variety of open-ended, multi-purpose instrumentation is developed by practitioners (neither scientist nor engineer, call them research-technologists) for use in academia, industry, state metrology and technical services, and considerably beyond. The generic instrumentation designed in this almost subterraneously institutionalized/professionalized, interstitial arena fuels both science and engineering work. This involves intermittent crossings of the boundaries that demarcate and protect the conventional cognitive and artefact cultures familiar to many historians and sociologists. Research-technologists thereby comprise a distinctive (but never distinct) transverse science and technology culture that generates a species of pragmatic universality, which in turn provides multiple and diversified audiences with a common repertory of vocabularies, notational systems, images, and perhaps even paradigms. Research-technology practitioners deliver a lingua franca that contributes to cognitive, material, and social cohesion. Research-technology is about the complementarity between boundary-crossing and the stability/maintenance of boundaries.

Benchmarking Industry-Science Relationships

Benchmarking Industry-Science Relationships
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9264175105

This report presents an in-depth comparative study of Industry-Science Relationships (ISR) in France and the United Kingdom and a special chapter on Japan.

Manufacturing Happy Citizens

Manufacturing Happy Citizens
Author: Edgar Cabanas
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781509537884

The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive psychologists, happiness economists and self-development gurus at the forefront. With the support of influential institutions and multinational corporations, these self-proclaimed experts now tell us what governmental policies to apply, what educational interventions to make and what changes we must undertake in order to lead more successful, more meaningful and healthier lives. With a healthy scepticism, this book documents the powerful social impact of the science and industry of happiness, arguing that the neoliberal alliance between psychologists, economists and self-development gurus has given rise to a new and oppressive form of government and control in which happiness has been woven into the very fabric of power.

Industry and Science

Industry and Science
Author: Manchester Joint Research Council
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1954
Genre: Greater Manchester (England)
ISBN:

Shaping Science and Industry

Shaping Science and Industry
Author: CB Schedvin
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 395
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0643102795

Shaping Science and Industry touches on Australia's intellectual, political and economic life. It provides an account of the rapid growth of CSIR (to become CSIRO) during World War II. The contributions of many outstanding personalities are described such as Sir George Julius, Sir Charles Martin, Hedley Marston, DF Martyn, AEV Richardson, Sir David Rivett, Ian Clunies Ross and FWG White.This book recounts the major effort to introduce and adapt new technologies as part of the war effort. Informative and non-technical accounts are given of some breakthroughs in agricultural research such as the eradication of prickly pear.

Secrets to Success in Industry Careers

Secrets to Success in Industry Careers
Author: L. Borbye
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0080551742

Secrets to Success in Industry Careers introduces you to the differences between what is needed in school and what is needed in industry. It describes the entire process of obtaining a job including analysis of a job description, writing an application, preparation for an interview, and conduct during and after an interview. Most importantly, this book is the ideal "industry-insider guide because it provides you with skills and understanding essential for success on the job. Fictional anecdotes make it easy to understand application of these skills, summarized at the end of each chapter and supported by self guided assessment questionnaires. This is the ideal guide on how to succeed for anyone seeking a job or already employed in both industry and academic environments. - Self-assessment tools are included to help identify strengths and opportunities for growth - Includes chapters on understanding business goals, leadership and teamwork, communication skills, marketing, discipline, flexibility, innovation, intellectual property, special technologies, quality, ethics, globalization, ambiguity, expectation and career management - Author has developed highly successful industry-relevant training for students and new employees and has experience from both industry and academic environments - Contains a compilation of essential technical and managerial skills necessary for success in industry, including chapters on expectation management and career management

Surgery, Science and Industry

Surgery, Science and Industry
Author: T. Schlich
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2016-01-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 023051328X

This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO's surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky technique as a standard treatment sheds light on the mechanisms of medical innovation at the crossroads of surgery, science and industry and the nature of modern medicine in general.

Turning Science Into Things People Need

Turning Science Into Things People Need
Author: David Giltner
Publisher: 50 Interviews Incorporated
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781935689041

Ten respected scientists who have built successful careers in industry reveal how they made the transition from research scientist to industrial scientist or successful entrepreneur and discuss what kind of jobs scientists hold in the private sector.